As its public urged them on, the Cuban rebel army shot more than 200 men, summarily convicted in drumhead courts, as torturers and mass murderers for the fallen Batista .
In little more time than it took to cock a rifle, he staged a drumhead trial for seven of his former colleagues, including an ex-Cabinet Minister, then sent them swiftly to their .
Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake in Raymond Chandler's tight-as-a-drumhead melodrama (PTI, May 13).